President Barack Obama’s amnesty for four million illegal immigrants will cost Americans about $2 trillion, or roughly $40 billion a year for the next five decades.

The cost of Obama’s generosity is equivalent to 30 cents extra for every gallon of gas bought by Americans.

Or a $10 monthly fee added to every cellphone.

Or a $22,000 tax on every American graduate’s four-year college degree.

The $2 trillion cost is driven by the federal government’s support for all poor people, says Robert Rector, a budget analyst at the Heritage Foundation. Rector explained that, on average, the illegal immigrants benefiting from the amnesty have a 10th grade education.

That low education ensures they can’t earn enough money, or pay enough taxes, to pay for the many benefits they’ll get if they progress from temporary residents to legal residents and then to citizens, Rector said.

Why is Obambi meeting less resistance here than on health care? These costs are better hidden. People have gotten notices about canceled insurance plans and doctors they can no longer visit—and enormous new bills—in their mailboxes. The costs of amnesty are disguised in welfare programs, local school budgets and, of all places, hospital bills.

Thursday, 27 November 2014

Wednesday, 26 November 2014

KMOV-TV reports that the majority of stores that were damaged or completely destroyed during Monday night’s violent riots in Ferguson were minority owned. Fire Departments around the St. Louis County Area put out 25 structural fires caused by vandals and looters following the announcement from the grand jury that Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted in the death of Mike Brown.

Most of the damaged businesses were on West Florissant Avenue and included: Walgreens, Little Caesers Pizza, Autozone, Beauty Town, Title Max, Family Dollar Store, and O’Reilly Auto Parts. Small-business owner Natalie Dubose was in tears when she realized her cake store was attacked by vandals.

Remember, this all started when a man wore yellow socks and a red hat to commit a strong-arm robbery, committed that crime in full view of a surveillance camera, then strolled down the middle of a street in making his escape, punched an armed policeman until the cop shot him, and finally decided to charge at the cop rather than run away. This community is not full of deep thinkers.

Tuesday, 25 November 2014

The man who asserted last week that he was a law unto himself on the subject of amnesty for illegals called last night for Ferguson protestors to obey the law. They responded with the expected wave of vandalism, looting, shooting, and arson. At no point did he ask people to read the thousands of pages of evidence on which the grand jury deliberated before deciding not to indict Darren Wilson. Indeed he couldn’t be bothered to watch the twenty-minute presentation by the prosecutor that outlined why justice was being served by exonerating Wilson, who shot the thug who was trying to kill him. Obambi just went on with the usual blather about hiring more black cops. America doesn’t so much need more black cops as fewer black thugs.

There was another message in the way the President chose to frame his response:

The normal investigative process was followed, but you have a right to be angry. We had a months long investigation and mountains of evidence presented to a jury of your peers, but this was clearly a bad decision caused by the country’s legacy of racism. The evidence may have indicated that Officer Wilson acted within the framework of the law, but this isn’t just about one cop in Ferguson. White cops all over the country are out to get the black man and I’m sending Eric Holder to find out about it.

This is not a message of healing, nor is it a statement of support for the rule of law. That speech was a thinly veiled call to action, not to improve the nation, but to reinforce the idea that the legal system is not to be trusted. Barack Obama was telling everyone that you can have your day in court (or in this case, before a Grand Jury to decide if it even goes to court) but there is no reason for you to either trust or accept the results. If things don’t go the way you want, then it’s the courts that are wrong, not you. And when the legal dust settles, of course we don’t want any violence, but it’s completely understandable why you are so angry.

Sunday, 23 November 2014

In a 2,200-word speech, he didn’t mention “work permits” or “work authorization” even once.

Pres. Obama’s huge prime-time TV speech about his big fix of the “broken immigration system” somehow left out the fact that he would be rewarding millions of unlawfully present foreign citizens with three-year work permits to compete directly with struggling American workers.

He hid the most consequential part of his big immigration “deal” from the American people.

The President made it seem like the big change was that he was going to stop deporting illegal aliens who don’t have a big felony record. But officials already have acknowledged that the average illegal alien has almost no chance of being deported, anyway.

He told us that if the illegal aliens stay here they have to pay taxes. But he forgot to say they would get work permits and be able to compete for any job in construction, manufacturing, service, programming or any other occupation. Or that they would get Social Security numbers to enable them to obtain all kinds of other documents that could embed them in America for life.

As I’ve pointed out before, declining to prosecute some bank robbers may be legal, issuing bank robbery licenses clearly is not.